Updated and expanded for 2019 – with plenty of discussion on the new Columbia MBA Essay 3, the leader you admire! Plus, lots of tips for how to structure your topics across the essays, direct-from-the-adcom info about the GMAT and the GRE, and practical pointers throughout for your entire Columbia MBA application strategy.
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EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2019-'20 MBA Admissions Essays for Columbia Business School
Columbia has essay questions that are very straightforward – well, except for one. They’ve laid a trap for you with that Essay 3 on a leader you admire!! And the rest of their admissions process can seem incredibly complicated. J-Term? Early Decision? Deferred Decision? Rolling Admissions? What do all these things mean?
EssaySnark’s 2019 MBA application Strategy Guide for Columbia Business School lays out all these options for a full-time applicant and explains where the advantages lie. We give you a simple map to the very different processes in effect at Columbia, and we explain who’s a good fit for which option. Importantly, we also tell you flat-out when you should apply, based on which program you’re targeting and which strategies you’ve adopted.
And of course we dissect the Columbia essays, in great detail, with a sketch of how to approach each one. We cover the importance of career goals — including your so-called “dream job” — plus the (very short!) Columbia short-answer question about immediate post-MBA professional goals. We explain what to do with Essay 1 about why you want to get a Columbia MBA, and we offer how to talk about why you want to go to Columbia in Essay 2. We also give pitfalls to watch for on Essay 3, and what key objectives to be focusing on for all three of these important essays. You’ll get insights on tying it all together and making your essays stand out from the crowd.
This edition also includes insights on Columbia’s premier Value Investing Program, along with direct guidance on whether the J-Term might be a good option. We also of course lay out the advantages and some disadvantages to applying through Early Decision.
Plus, with a first publication date of May 30, 2019, the EssaySnark Columbia guide is the earliest MBA application guide for the 2019-2020 season available on the market — the essay questions were only released on May 21st! This guide is also another five pages longer than the 2018 version was, while also being condensed in key areas to make your reading experience more efficient.
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EssaySnark's Strategies for the 2019-'20 MBA Admissions Essays for Columbia Business School
First published on: 05/30/2019 Specific to: 2019
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